Bentley releasing Version 6????????

This question must have been asked, but how do I force level symbology
on a design file. For the life of me I cannot figure it out

We are an Architectural firm that MUST use colour=level. If I cannot use it
on version8
(or is it 6- a step backewards) then I will be sticking with V7.

Anthony Cox
Red Box Design Group

 

V8 uses 'bylevel' properties, in exactly the same way that AutoCad uses
bylayer.
What's more you can set and enforce standards using level libraries, as you
can for text and dimension styles.
V8 is definitely a big step forward. I imagine you deal with people using
AutoCAD? We have just completed an AutoCad job for a client with a mix of
AutoCad and MicroStation V8 working directly with dwg files - no
translations. There were a few teething troubles, but Bentley sorted them
immediately.
HTH

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Regards
Dave Preston


www.cadesignservices.co.uk

 

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Hallo,
in MicroStation V8, each level has two categories of settings for symbology.
One is exactly what "bylayer" symbology of AutoCAD is (now the default
setting in the level manager dialog box).
The other is the same as level symbology was in all versions prior to V8.
You can switch between these categories by the option menu right besides the
word "symbology" in the level manager dialog box.
Hope this helps, M.B.

 

Yes, I was feeling a bit sick last night ( and managed to get a personal rap
across the knuckles from Phil at Bentley)

One very serious question.

I have a live file, and two reference files.
Originally they are all based on the same seed file, and same colour table
and
have a default colour of level 1 = colour 1 etc

I want to set the colour of one reference file to all white, and the other I
want to map to any colour I like
the live file I want to keep as is.

How do I do it.

(We use colour alot in our working drawings)

Thanks
Coxy

 

In View Attributes (Ctrl+B) set Level Symbology on. Press the Apply
button.

In the Level Manager (Ctrl+E), open the files panel and the symbology
tab. Select the Symbology tab. Hilight the active file in the list.
Toggle off any checkboxes in the lower right panel. Press the Apply
button.

Then hilight the reference file that you want white. In the levels
list, click and drag with your mouse, from level 1 downward. Move your
mouse below the list and it will scroll all the way to 63. Release the
mouse button. Toggle on the color checkbox in the upper right pannel
(toggle off everything else.) Set the color picker to white. Press the
upper Apply Button. Toggle on the color button in the lower right
panel (toggle off everything else.) Press the lower Apply button.

Repeat that process for reference file 2.

Update the view.

If the colors are wrong, its because the reference files have
differing color tables and your user preferences, under Reference
Files has Use Color Table on.

 

Of course.

All of our V7 files are set to Level Symbology on as default, and when I
opened up
a standard sheet file, I found that I couldn't get anything to change
colour.

For those who may be reading this with interest (at my stupidity)

This is the way I think it works.

An element can be coloured in three ways.

With Level Symbology set to ON, the colours listed in the level manager
under "override" is used

With Level Symbology OFF, the colour of the element will be either.
Its original colour attribute
or
The colour set for the entire layer - but only if the element is told
to use the "by level" colour.

(Which of course, ours wasn't)

I still think I a correct in thinking that I still have greater control over
the colour by using override and Level Symbology On.

My problem is that I have looked at V8, seen similarities to
AutoCAD and then ahve an instant mental block on the whole thing.